Leading Blog

APRIL 24, 2020

Y OU don’t have to be an entrepreneur to be an entrepreneurial leader. Joel Peterson has been around the block serving as a leader in various roles—CEO, CFO, founder, investor, entrepreneur—and is currently the chairman of JetBlue Airways and a professor at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. What guides your everyday actions?

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General Leadership

MAY 7, 2014

Consider the following: If EQ is to us, what an engine is to a car – then self-regulation is the drive train that powers how we operate. “…self-regulation is the drive train that powers how we operate…” Our capacity for self-regulation acts in the same way. Lose brand power. Lose situational power.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 20, 2021

It’s very important to consider what kind of entrepreneur you hope to be once you decide to go it alone. Some people may misinterpret that fact as meaning that as an entrepreneur, you have to get everything right. Intrepid entrepreneurs know the value of risk. Learn From Your Mistakes With A Clinical Attitude.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

There are leaders and there are entrepreneurs, but not all leaders are entrepreneurs, and not all entrepreneurs are leaders. As founding dean and professor at the Yale school of management, he taught a course on entrepreneurial leadership. He notes that an entrepreneur is not a gambler. They look beyond their ego.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

They are often hosted by entrepreneurs like yourself and will discuss dilemmas relevant to your field. But for entrepreneurs, it can be even more significant and career-advancing, not only from a personal development point of view but also in terms of client service. Research relevant people, invest in their books and learn from them.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 30, 2021

In 1997 he was awarded an Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year. It is a well-written story that takes us from his days as a student-athlete through his formative years working his way up in bars and restaurants from busboy to manager, to the wild ride founding and growing Texas Roadhouse into the international success it is today.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

When I read Whitney’s new book, I was struck by how her model reflected my own journey of taking the leap from Verizon Wireless executive to entrepreneur. AND then, I became a large team operations leader. You can manage your team as a portfolio of S curves. Is it familiar, yet novel? One hundred percent.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Entrepreneur coaching can be a transformative experience for both emerging and seasoned business leaders. Through the guidance of experienced professionals who have successfully built and scaled businesses, entrepreneurs gain access to invaluable knowledge that can reshape how they approach challenges and make decisions. The result?

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 25, 2022

This series’s final part will balance needs with compromises, float tangential opportunities to expand horizons, and extricate from myopia on that elusive ‘unicorn’ management candidate. You will find it difficult to move between functional management roles.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 17, 2011

It is not at all uncommon for entrepreneurs and executives to be too close to the forest to see the trees. Another trait of healthy passionate thinking is to recruit tier-one talent at the executive leadership and senior management levels in order to stimulate innovation and thought growth. Are you operating in a vacuum?

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

These are all phrases we’ve heard from managers (and executives) recently. People are yearning for human connection, with one another and their manager. Bernd Geropp provided New as a manager – 5 most important tips. How can you manage to do it all—without burning out? ” Follow Bill on Twitter at @btreasurer.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 26, 2012

Only last week, I had this demonstrated to me during a coaching session with a successful Managing Director of a mid-sized company. As a Managing Director, he had developed an intuitive feel for quickly analyzing complex situations, and continuously contrasting his strategies with the operation. Please criticize me, I need it!

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Strategy Driven

JULY 21, 2021

600,000 new businesses receive their licenses to commence operations in the US annually. While the business market can be challenging for the new entrepreneur, you can succeed with the right strategies. Remember that most small business start-ups in the US fail in the first year because of poor financial management.

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Women on Business

MARCH 6, 2013

Flint , which is currently being operated by a governor installed emergency financial manager (EFM), and Detroit , which will likely see an EFM by month’s end, have been plagued by violent crime, high unemployment, extremely low property values, and a significant loss off residents with taxable incomes. Allison Carmen in St.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 20, 2014

Why the “Profit First” formula works with the entrepreneur’s natural behavior. The money management genius of your grandmother. Then he started all over again, with a new “Profit first” formula. How Parkinson’s Law works against business owners. The eye-opening Instant Analysis that can transform your business.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Adizes’ Leadership Model: Balancing Critical Roles Ichak Adizes’ leadership model highlights the importance of balancing four key roles: Producer, Administrator, Entrepreneur, and Integrator. Administrator: Focuses on structure, rules, and operational efficiency. Entrepreneur: Drives innovation, creativity, and growth.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 17, 2020

Taking the exact opposite tack, in a recent CNBC interview, Alan Patricof , founder of Greycroft Partners, an elite venture capital firm, said: “academic studies show that the success rate of entrepreneurs who start at the age of 60 are twice as successful as those that started in their thirties.”

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Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2023

This book helps managers understand the postmodern worldview held by generation Z and younger millennials, how it influences their behaviour at work, and how they want to be led in the workplace. However, being a 10X entrepreneur is nothing like what most people think. and global productivity will go up or down.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

The most successful companies incorporate disruptive thinking into all of their business and management practices to gain distinctive competitive value propositions. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

Great businesses are in constant search of improvement, innovation, change, disruption, knowledge and other strategic leverage points that lead to a competitive advantage or operational enhancement. Well actually, no it’s not. Don’t fall into the rut of allowing your business to be trapped in a perpetual state of static thinking.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Nearly ten years ago, a group of researchers from Brigham Young University, Utah State University, and Rutgers shed light on a disconcerting phenomenon: discrimination within the realm of bank loan services, which cast a shadow over the American Dream for minority entrepreneurs.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2020

Budding entrepreneurs face a challenging road. frameworks that help make thoughtful decisions about starting, growing, managing, and selling a business. Short-termism is rampant among executives and managers today, causing many companies to underperform and even go out of business. Instead of startup myths?legends

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

My experience with most executives & entrepreneurs is that they are totally committed to and focused on success. As a result, many of them tend to have a major blind-spot (translation: weakness ) when it comes to the anticipation of set-backs.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Tim Eisenmann is a professor at Harvard Business School, where he’s led The Entrepreneurial Manager , a required course for all of their MBAs. But they are more likely to boost the odds of failure by creating yet one more serious problem for management to deal with. T HE FACT IS most startups fail. It is easy to blame the founders.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 2, 2010

I believe the same characteristics that are present in the heart of a warrior are also present in the most successful executives and entrepreneurs. There are many so-called management gurus in today’s politically correct world who would take great exception to what I’m putting forth in today’s post.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

This is the fundamental mindset of an entrepreneur, and so it’s not hard to see how success can sometimes be hard to find, or that in all probability, it’s unlikely. In this guide, we’ll explain what that means, and how it could apply to you as an entrepreneur. Does that mean you have to feel tired or demoralised before you begin?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

As a person that works with CEOs and entrepreneurs on a daily basis I can tell you with great certainty that all leaders are not created equal when it comes to the competency of their decisioning skills. They make bad decisions. And in some cases they compound bad decision upon bad decision.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 19, 2022

The INSEAD paper suggests that the focus on the business model also prompts entrepreneurs to place more emphasis on the idea itself and less on the business, and especially its structure. This is when managers are often forced upon the founders to try and whip their organizations into shape. Organizational structure. Forced hand.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

This article presents three of these entrepreneurial basics that should form the foundation of your enterprise and basic operating instructions. The journey of any entrepreneur is primarily to strive to be the best at what it is that they sell or do. Entrepreneurial success is not widely guaranteed. Perfect your core business.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

We may move from frame to frame but we tend to operate in one. They are Company Man or Woman , CEO of Your Own Destiny , Disenchanted Employee , and Aspiring Entrepreneur. We are living in the age of the entrepreneur. You might be brilliant, but if you are hard to manage, it’s easy to find someone else. Pick your battles.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 3, 2024

There are many advantages for entrepreneurs who decide to join communities of like-minded businesses. Buduchnist Credit Union (BCU) Financial has a unique portfolio of advantages, special business banking services, and tailor-made financial programs specifically for entrepreneurs.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 31, 2020

The answer is probably ‘yes’, and the most successful entrepreneurs know that. Could you be a better entrepreneur? No entrepreneur knows everything, though many of them give that impression. They could give you advice regarding your style of management and the structure of your business’ daily operations.

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 1, 2011

This past weekend I co-hosted our annual gathering of 150 business practitioners and aspiring entrepreneurs in Chicago, SOBCon (“SOB” stands for Successful Online Business). In this case, we went from “ Hit budget and greatly improve operating metrics ” (the goal) to “ serve our customers and support each other ” (the Cause).

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 2, 2021

Many factors can make or break your business, including scaling your operations towards growth. Of course, this scenario is good news for every entrepreneur. Before you scale your operations, you need to plan your growth in that regard and set goals. Listed here are some keys to successfully scaling your business.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Many workers now function like Apps on a smartphone, sitting pretty on top of a company’s operating system (OS). The trick is to be ruthless in managing our energy so that it can expand and become boundless. He is a speaker, writer, and entrepreneur on a mission to make the world of work more human. Vital Ingredients.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2011

I have watched entrepreneurs and executives initially trivialize the value of influence in a capital transaction, only to regret it down the road. What a sad commentary on the state of equity markets, since it’s the best way for an investor to manage the risk surrounding their investment.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

In today’s #AskingForaFriend, I bring you an interview with Mike Maddock , serial entrepreneur, and best-selling author of several books including Plan D. When you gamify the challenge, it can become fun and more manageable. After all, that’s the point of a blind spot, right?

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